The live experience and the recorded experience are totally different. When you're recording an album, you won't be able to immerse people in sound. When you play live, you want to grab people on the visceral level. They're completely different.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

Patriotism is a joke in the UK.

I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It's been hard for me for a long time, but now I can't listen to any new bands at all.

Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that girl who's in love with you.

It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all.